It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

Naïveté, thy name is me.

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.